Comment Now! Protect Public Lands from Fracking

Join Chefs for the Marcellus in the nation-wide movement calling on Obama’s BLM to ban on our federal lands. Take Action and send the BLM your comment by Friday August 23!

The Obama Administration recently proposed a new rule for hydraulic fracturing on public and Indian lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — including those in the national forest system and federal lands that are nearby many cherished national parks. In addition, the BLM manages livestock grazing on 155 million acres!

Nearly 36 million acres of federal land are leased to the oil and gas industry spanning across 24 states. Opening these vast and treasured spaces to fracking would exacerbate climate change, endanger public health and natural resources, and threaten existing industries incompatible with an industrialized landscape (tourism, outdoor recreation, food and beverage industry, etc.).

Tell President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell that fracking is not the answer for meeting our energy needs, and federal and Indian lands should not be sacrificed to the oil and gas industry! The Bureau of Land Management is currently seeking comments for its proposed rule.Comment by Friday August 23. Just click here for a fast way to comment.

1 comment

Lori LaVango says:

Aug 20, 2013

The future needs to be considered and we have to start preserving what Mother Nature gave us. Looking at all the other 24 states and the dead zones that are happening there, this is a call for action.
There needs to be a areas that remains untouched, for the people of this country and the wildlife that relies on it to survive. We have to stop the sacrificing of our treasured spaces now.
I ask you all to vote and save these millions of acres from fracking FOREVER.
There are other ways to create energy and make money with the land, safely and with sustainability.
Fracking is not the answer.